Been busy with various things over the last week, so not had great deal of time. However today got a fedora core 2.6.3 derived kernel up, running with selinux on ppc32. Minor patches need to push to various people after more testing.

Well had housewarming this weekend which took up lots of my time - but was very worth while. Lots of people I hadn't seen for a while.

I've made a start on rpm.spec for rpm-python, it'll be the first rpm-python component I've done from scratch but I'm fairly happy with how it's going. I've also experimented with wrapping the rpm extension under a python module to make it easier to merge some helper functions.

jbj has added glob support for macrofiles which will make jpackage's life easier for macros.jpackage.

My rpmdb went a bit foo'ey so I took the opportunity to play some more with skvidal's rpmUtils module in order to fix it. Only real annoyance was not being able to access some useful functions in rpmUtils.updates as they are part of the class. Probably me being lazy though.

Failed to go to FOSDEM, meaning I missed lots of the OSS java people, but as oneof the things I've been sporadically trying to follow is native eclipse for FC2 I have some good news. I'm happy to say that the latest ant that is in rawhide fixes the issues I had with the naoko ant and libgcj-ssa (multiple classpath entries for .so in an executable).

I'm rebuilding against gcc34 packages and if that all works I may host a yum repo. I'll build on ppc later too. Then to work on rpm-java. I may also try and package native jython too.

Well I've pushed another patch mharris' way (one typo has caused so much pain...) so things looking good. Unfortunately my laptop has decided that it really didn't like my last up2date -fu and is segfaulting at such commands as /bin/ls. Seeing as rpm and python are b0rked too I'm going to reinstall rawhide later today. This will delay the synaptics rpm itself as I can't run rpmbuild on laptop atm.

The ppc kernel is looking good, compiled, linked and runs. Need to do config tweaking now and then push to davej. Evil hacky implementation of page_is_array for ppc32 (it just returns 1 atm), but this is apparently what is in ppc64 RHEL branch for time being - so it's not just me ;)

Working through fedora ppc kernel stuff and fairly hopefull on that front. Working via gprs and dialup really makes me wish PDR or fedora CVS was available. Particularly working on the kernel and XFree86.

David Dawes has commited my driver SDK patch which enables clean synaptics builds. As it's now UPSTREAM this may mean getting in into FC2 is doable. I've also managed to do the Imake magic to build supporting binaries for synaptics driver. Now just sanity checking and rediffing my patch against the Fedora XFree86 4.3.

I also wrote a quick script which tests the state of the current drivers built against the SDK. My patch to start using $(DRIVERSDKINCLUDEDIR) is sane, but some of the drivers on HEAD will no longer build with the SDK. More attention required here. I don't know if I can make rc3 for 4.4 final for this though due to Real Life(TM)